Shrimps remove ectoparasites from fishes in temperate waters

Biology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 454-456

  Östlund Nilsson, Sara ^a   Becker, Justine H A ^b   Nilsson, Göran E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cleaning symbiosis; Gyrodactyus; Palaemon; Parasitism; Plaice; Pleuronecta

Indexed keywords

CLEANING BEHAVIOR; CRUSTACEAN; ECTOPARASITE; FLATFISH; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM;

ARTICLE; CLEANING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORAL REEF; ECTOPARASITE; FEEDING; FLATFISH; NONHUMAN; PARASITISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHRIMP; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; WORM;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ANTHOZOA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GYRODACTYLUS; LEPEOPHTHEIRUS PECTORALIS; MONOGENEA; PALAEMON; PALAEMON ADSPERSUS; PALAEMON ELEGANS; PHTHIRAPTERA; PISCES; PLEURONECTES PLATESSA; PLEURONECTIFORMES;

EID: 29144482538     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2005.0363     Document Type: Article

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